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A '''keep''', or "manor"<ref>'''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]''', ''page 152''</ref>, is the ancestral home of a [[Sangheili]] [[clan]].<ref name="ref1">'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', ''pages 88-89''</ref> Though each clan has one, keeps differ greatly based on their role and the position of their inhabitants. The master of a keep is known as an [[elder]]. A typical Sangheili state may contain multiple smaller client keeps where the clans inhabiting the state reside, governed by a single keep headed by a [[kaidon]] or ocasionally, a [[Scion]]. The kaidon's keep serves as an assembly house where the elders from the client keeps convene to decide on matters concerning their state.<ref name="glass2">'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 94''</ref>

A residence for Sangheili to live in and to mate and raise/train their young, the keep has many common rooms for the average inhabitants, but the elder members of the clan reside in larger living quarters for their higher status. Each keep has a "[[saga wall]]" where the family saga of the clan is written. Although their architecture may vary greatly, keeps are often constructed of non-Covenant alloys and are built with more traditional items such as stone and wood. Depending on the ranking status of the inhabitants the keep may be decorated with [[Forerunner]] alloys. They usually have large courtyards to spar and train.

==Known keeps==

==List of appearances==